Six films by Mika Taanila are screening at Zwei Tage Strom – Festival für elektronische Musik in Zurich between April 18-20, 2024.

Cinema  performance I Might Be Stuck (2022, 30 min) is showing back-to-back with Future Is Not What It Used To Be (2002, 52 min) as the opening event of the festival on Thursday April 18th.

Camera-less feature Tectonic Plate (2016, 74 min) screens on Friday April 19th.

Shorts films Optical Sound, RoboCup99 and Futuro – A News Stance  for Tomorrow show as a combined program on Saturday April 20th.

All screenings take place at Filmpodium Zurich.

My Silence (Mika Taanila, 2013, 13 min) is screening at Tampere Film Festival on Friday, March 8, 2024 as part of a carte blanche program by Iiti Yli-Harja.

The feature doc Monica in the South Seas (dir. Sami van Ingen & Mika Taanila, 2023) is screening at Tampere Film Festival on Sunday, March 10, 2024 back-to-back with Moana with Sound (dir. Robert Flaherty, Frances Flaherty, Monica Flaherty (1926/1980).

Feature film Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) will have its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday, January 27th, 2024. The film is screening in program section Harbour.

Original title: Epäonnistunut tyhjyys

Producers: Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola

Production Company: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi

Screenplay: Harry Salmenniemi

Cinematography: Jussi Eerola

Sound and music: Nika Son

Music: Klara Lewis

Cast: Ariane Tretow

The films Tectonic Plate (2016, 74 min) and A Physical Ring (2002, 4 min) are screening at Fundação de Serralves in Porto as part of an event dedicated to Mika Vainio, who composed music for both of these films.

Tectonic Plate screens on Saturday, November 18 at 16:00h at Auditório do Museu.

A Physical Ring is part of short film program screening on Sunday, November 19 at 16:30h.

The event features Mika Vainio Listening Room and performances by Ilpo Väisänen, CM von Hausswolff & Joachim Nordwall and Charlemagne Palestine.

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Kiila: Verbranntes Land (2002) by Mika Taanila is screening in Tokyo at the 37th Image Forum Festival as part of AV-arkki’s program “Dozen Treasures“.

Tuesday October 3, 2023, 18:30, Theatre Image Forum